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Murovai, a border town between China and Russia

There is a border town in the Sino-Russian border area, Room Wei Town. The town belongs to Erguna City in Inner Mongolia, is one of the "China's Top Ten Charming Towns", and is one of the few Russian ethnic townships in China. The houses here are all exotic "Mukulan" houses with a very Russian ethnic atmosphere.I visited the town on May 31, 2019 and experienced the peace and warmth of staying in the Mukulan-style hut "Pan Lejie House". The inn was peaceful and cozy.

In 1917, when the October Revolution broke out in Russia, some of the Belarusian aristocracy fled across Northwest Asia to the Chinese town of Muwei. Here, they met the honest and righteous Shandong men who won the hearts of Belarusian girls and married and had children, and after a century of reproduction, they gradually formed a unique ethnic group - the Chinese-Russian Russians. These Chinese-Russian descendants maintain the Russian national tradition, they have been living in the "Mukulan" house, which is a typical Russian

residence, this house is mainly carved out of wood and axe, angular, very standardized, very neat, so people call it " Mukulan". Wood carving flute". Throughout the entire town of Room Wei, almost no trace of brick and mortar, everywhere is built with birch wood "wood carving corrugated".

The locals said that the whole house is made of wood without a single nail, and the first thing to do is to drill a hole in the wood, and then drill a nail into it, twisting it back and forth, and the whole house is made of thick logs

and then the ceiling is hung, and the ceiling is dragged on top of it. Then the ceiling is hung, the ceiling is dragged above the board, the board is above the mud, the mud is spread on the horse dung and. The horse dung was spread on the roof, and in winter the whole house was very warm and airtight. In summer, the sun doesn't come in, so it's warm in winter and cool in summer.

The natural scenery of the town of Murowe is unique and very attractive, with the ancient stagecoach road stretching out from afar, and the Erguna River, the boundary river between China and Russia, serving as the border. Tourists who come to Murowe are more likely to enjoy the scenery of the border river and take

a look at Russia on the other side of the river. Standing at the end of the town on the Mangyu Murovai Square, you can see the Russian villages on the other side of the river. Especially in the morning, looking across the Russian villages in the smoke, the heart

especially relaxed, unlike the city's restlessness. The air here is very fresh, the sky is high, the outskirts of the town are green grass, flowers, and the breeze is pleasant to the eye.

We also went into an ordinary Chinese-Russian descendants of the family

family guests, zero-distance experience of the Russian culture, a sense of rich Russian flavor.

The owner of this family has a European face, speaks authentic Northeastern dialect, they live in the house is the Russian favorite wooden house of the wood-carved corrugated wooden house, dress, especially women still retain a lot of Russian women's wearing habits, such as head tied triangular scarf, wearing a big flower dress and so on. These Chinese and Western, soil and foreign combination of humanistic flavor, attracted a batch and batch of tourists to come to sightseeing tours.

As soon as they entered the house, the hospitable hosts danced a joyful Russian dance and brought out bread and salt to express their respect and welcome to the visitors from afar. Their houses cleaned up, the hostess will be hand-cooked Russian pastries meatloaf mashed potatoes, Soup, sour Lebas ...... on the table, the enthusiastic host impromptu tap dance for the guests, but also interested in the tourists to tell the story of the ancestor, the father's generation handed down. Tasting the traditional Russian food, enjoying the Russian national songs and dances, visiting tourists y infected by the hospitality of the hosts, everyone and the hosts have learned the Russian dance, add

into the joy of the team, experienced an unforgettable experience.

The Russian folk dance has a history of 100 years and is a remnant of the Russian folk dance in China in the last hundred years. The rich connotation and basic characteristics of the dance, as well as nearly a hundred years of history to discover the origin, which is rare in other folk dance, unique, and has an important value in the history of the world dance.

They also have a variety of Russian games to interact with tourists, such as collision of colored eggs and other games is one of them. The pre-dyed colored eggs are distributed to each visitor's hand, and then hit each other, whose hands of colored eggs broken each other's eggs for the win.